Coast Guard Plane Carrying 14 Makes Emergency Landing After Engine Failure

3 articles · Updated · The Washington Post · Sep 2

A U.S. Coast Guard aircraft carrying Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin landed safely outside Washington after one engine failed midflight, leaving the pilot to request an immediate emergency landing at Reagan National around 1:30 p.m.
ATC recordings captured the pilot saying, “We just lost our right engine,” and reporting 14 people aboard; Mullin later said the single-engine landing went smoothly.
The plane was traveling from Georgia to Washington on a Coast Guard C101, and Mullin credited the pilots’ professionalism after the incident.
The emergency landing also revives scrutiny of the Coast Guard aircraft fleet after DHS flagged the age of the secretary’s plane last year.

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Why was the Homeland Security Secretary flying on an aging Coast Guard aircraft that his own department had already flagged for safety concerns?

What specific mechanical flaw triggered the sudden engine loss during Secretary Mullin's flight, and are other government planes hiding similar risks?

Will this mid-air engine failure involving a cabinet secretary finally force an immediate overhaul of America's aging government aviation fleets?